Reforming the NYPD---Beyond Stop and Frisk

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The Crime Report
By: Judy Greene
Published: February 4, 2014
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In this article, Justice Strategies' Director, Judy Greene discusses: the realities behind, now-again NYC Police Commissioner, Bill Bratton's ComStat and "broken windows" approach to crime control; the City's challenge to implement real reform after a US Court of Appeals upheld a Federal District Court ruling finding the NYPD's stop-and-frisk campaign an unconstitutional police practice; and, her call on Commissioner Bratton to embrace more collaborative policing practices finding success in the cities of Seattle, WA and Cincinnati, OH.

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